venetian macau

I woke up early in order to catch a ferry to get to Macau by around 10am.

What the trains look like at 8am 🙂

To get to the ferry terminal for boats going to Macau, I got off at Sheung Wan station and just walked up, through a mall, to get to Turbo Jet’s ticketing counter (Cotai Jet is here as well). The ticket to Macau cost HK$163 (Rs. 1150/$21/€15) and I was hoping to get a seat for the ferry leaving at 8:45am, but as my bad luck would have it, the one guy in front of me at the counter wanted god-knows-how-many tickets and was arguing about change with the man behind the counter! Grrh, don’t you just hate it when this happens to you while waiting in line?! I stood there frustrated as not only did the 8:45am ferry fill up, so did the 9am one as well! I got one for 9:15am and then I waited at the departures ‘lounge’.

The terminal was filled with tourists from mainland ChinaI knew it would be well past 10am by the time I reached MacauThis was the standard ‘class’ which was comfy enough and air-conditionedI bid farewell to Hong Kong — for now

I asked for a window seat (as usual)

I kept praying I would get to Macau and clear immigration in time so I could head to the airport to see SNSD arrive. But that wouldn’t be the case.

I only reached Macau at around 10:30am. I already knew by now that my chances of making it to the airport in time were slim.The casinos greet you as soon as you near the Macau ferry terminal